In message , nkh
writes
Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
their names are and how you went about choosing names.

I didn't - my son did. There is Flipper (yellow common), Diver (silver
and red comet (I think)) and, bizarrely, Alfred (small veiltail). I have
to say that if it were left to me they'd be "the fish". Or perhaps "the
yellow fish, the big fish and the frilly fish"...


We have four orandas, one for each of us in our family. Each person got to
choose their own fish from the store and give it a name. My 5 year old
choose a small red/white oranda and named it 'Ko-Da' (after the baby bear in
Disney's Brother Bear). My 7 year old daughter named her slightly-bigger red
cap oranda 'Jade' (she liked the sound of it). My wife's red oranda is
'Sienna' for her color and mine is 'Snoopy' (no reason I can think of!).

It's amazing how attached we've become to these fish, especially after
giving them names.



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sophie